Scanning your business documents allows you to edit them as image files on your computer. You can scan your documents directly into Adobe Photoshop by using the TWAIN software protocol. TWAIN was designed to regulate communication between software applications like Photoshop and imaging devices like scanners. To add the scanner to Photoshop, you first need to install the Photoshop TWAIN plug-in. You can download, install and use the plug-in for free. However, you need to have the appropriate drivers installed for your scanner.

Close Adobe Photoshop if it's running. Connect the scanner to your computer. Make sure the appropriate drivers for the scanner are installed on your system.

Navigate to the Adobe Download page (link in Resources) to download the Adobe Optional Plug-Ins for Windows. Save the archive on your hard disk drive.

Extract the archive on your hard disk using the archiving utility of your choice and then open the folder to which you extracted the contents of the archive.

Open the "Optional Plug-Ins Win32" folder and then the "Plugins" folder.

Select the "Twain_32.8BA" file and press "Ctrl-C" to copy it to the clipboard.

Launch Windows Explorer, select the system drive and then open the "Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Plug-Ins" folder.

Press "Ctrl-V" to paste the TWAIN plug-in from the clipboard into Photoshop's Plug-Ins folder.